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Provide leadership development classes for educated professionals in a restricted access country.
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About This Project
The men and women of this Central Asian nation want to be progressive, forward thinkers, but they are fighting a worldview that threatens to wash their culture back to the Stone Age. Leadership development courses will help raise up the next generation of leaders among a people who have experienced more than forty years of non-stop war. These courses are for educated men and women who desire to lead in a new paradigm in contrast to current leaders who often fill the vacuum of leadership in this restricted-access country. Gifts to this project will underwrite the cost of the classes, including facility rental and teaching materials.
Classes are structured according to the best practices of leadership development taught in any secular environment: team building, peace building, conflict resolution, trust building, personal growth, and servant leadership. Personnel who instruct the courses build on this foundation to explain their biblical worldview. The difference in what the instructors believe and how they live provides the credibility that students need to see before they open their hearts to the truth of Christ. Once relationships are developed, instructors can take the gospel much deeper. The master plan is to make disciples who embed the gospel deep into their culture. Students from every people group are welcomed to attend the leadership development classes so the gospel can spread along tribal lines.
Your gift will fund leadership development classes for educated professionals who want to change the character of leadership in their country. You can also join the work as a volunteer, sharing your time, leadership skills, and faith. Your witness will guide the next generation of leaders to follow Christ in their personal lives, families, and professions.
Why direct giving matters
Giving directly to a missionary team helps fund the specific, on-the-ground needs your missionaries care deeply about—needs that aren't covered by CP and LMCO alone.
In the next five years, a globalization goal of all IMB workers is to mobilize 500 local believers to become global missionary partners serving on IMB teams.
100% of your gift directly supports missionaries and their ministries overseas.
100% of your gift directly supports missionaries and their ministries overseas.
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Changing Times. In the past year and a half, massive political shifts have occurred in the part of the world where our leadership development project takes place. For about a year, the business that runs these leadership development courses was dormant, as the international expatriate staff was out of the country due to Covid. But, praise God, beginning in May 2022, one member of the international expatriate staff returned to the country to survey the situation and was able to get the business up and running again. We hired a national partner, a former project manager, to help with the process.
New, Inaugural Class. We recently held our first leadership development course since 2020. We brought back the founder and director of the leadership courses to teach this first seminar. Eight students attended and we got off to a strong start in these new relationships. The plan as we advance is to hold a series of leadership development seminars, building on the network of connections from this first class to generate interest in a future 10-month course. We will offer two semesters and then host a graduation ceremony. The attendance at this first seminar indicates genuine interest in having this longer leadership development course. These new relationships and renewed relationships with former graduates make us hopeful for opportunities to bring Christ’s light into this dark place.